A nice find (DISCERN)

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Redeul

Today i found out about an interesting project: “Text and Discourse Understanding: The DISCERN System“. It’s a subsymbolic neural network model of script-based story understanding.

While working on the sentiment analysis tool for the romanian language i always wondered if something like this can work. And it turns out that i can and that it does work pretty well. It also displays human like failures (like schizophrenia for example) which is always a good sign.

And the architecture of the system seems on the right track with what how my intuition suggested which is always good from a self-esteem point of view :) .

Mihai

PS,
Don’t forget to follow my tumble feed (it’ full of interesting finds that i can’t find the time to properly post them in here)

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Ai and Robotics courses

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Redeul

I have always been interested in AI. I really think that at some point we will be able to build something that will be not that different than what we are currently calling “human mind”.

AI as a term is really oversold at this moment but the field seems to have advanced nicely (and some of the techniques developed have turned out to be really useful in meantime).

So i decided to roll into the “Intro to AI” Online Stanford course. Look interesting enough to worth the effort :) .

Also if you want to learn about Robotics this should be helpful: artificial intelligence | introduction to robotics.

 

 

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Tumblr account

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Redeul

I noticed something (not really a breakthrough but stay with me). I have two kind of posts:

  • the long and convoluted ones (hopefully the product of some thinking)
  • the short and off topic ones (made to share some shiny thing i found)

I also have the habit (no idea if good or bad yet) of sharing links to interesting pages on twitter/facebook from time to time (with the same purpose as the second type of post).

In the end I decided to split the things: the long and hopefully thought out posts will remain here and the short and shiny ones are going on a platform much more adapted to it (tumblr.com).

So without further delay i present you my tumblr blog: http://tumble.redeul.ro. It’s fun, it’s shiny, it has some pretense of class and it’s really good for you. Go, read and subscribe to it’s feed: http://tumble.redeul.ro/rss.

Live long and prosper (preferably together).

Mihai

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Negotiating for lazy ones (I)

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Redeul

Now before reading further i want to warn you of something:

If you read negotiating tips on my blog then you are really lazy !. Please go and read stuff that is more thoroughly researched on the web. It will help you more.

If you are still here let me try to help a little. This is one defensive tactic that can help if you start to feel cornered. It is simple enough to execute but requires some personal humility.
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